{"id":96656,"date":"2021-06-26T19:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96656"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:53:04","slug":"a-bakery-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-bakery-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bakery Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>twenty minutes to walk to work<br \/>\nI pass by the skyscraper on the corner<br \/>\nnot quite my destination just yet<br \/>\nno cloud in the sky<br \/>\nhoping my day is also clear<\/p>\n<p>skipping the storefront<br \/>\nI head straight for the back<br \/>\ngreet some coworkers<br \/>\nexchange a good banter <\/p>\n<p>I pull my hair back<br \/>\nat the last possible moment<br \/>\npreferring the freedom<br \/>\nof letting it all down<\/p>\n<p>sourdough fills my nostrils<br \/>\nno complaints on that<br \/>\nas I clock in for another day<br \/>\nselling food to afford food <\/p>\n<p>I spread my stuff<br \/>\nunder the till<br \/>\nneeding some comforts<br \/>\nto be within reach<br \/>\nas I gulp in<br \/>\nand let out a deep sigh<\/p>\n<p>this is the now<\/p>\n<p>(Poem 11 of Half Marathon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>twenty minutes to walk to work I pass by the skyscraper on the corner not quite my destination just yet no cloud in the sky hoping my day is also clear skipping the storefront I head straight for the back greet some coworkers exchange a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96725,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96656\/revisions\/96725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}